94 occurrences

'Enemy' in the Bible

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.

Verse ConceptsPursuingSelf ConfidencePursuing PeopleArrogance, Characterizes The WickedOvertakingDividing The Spoil

But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahBlessings, To IsraelCautionGod As EnemyEnemies

And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceWar As God's JudgmentGod Executes VengeanceCovenant Made At SinaiGod's Sword

And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

Verse ConceptsMemoriesenemies, of Israel and JudahDivine RemembranceTrumpets For BattleGod Remembering The NeedyGod ReprovingPrinciples Of WarWarBattleEnemy Attacks

or have smitten him with any stone wherewith one may die, without seeing him, and have cast it upon him so that he die, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismActing In SecretBirth

If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.

Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; I will make them drunk with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsLong HairCovered With BloodGod KillingGod Making DrunkGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod's SwordArrows

Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."

Verse ConceptsPagan GodsFalse GodsCelebrationsGiven Into One's HandsDagon

And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us."

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForVictory, As An Act Of GodGiven Into One's Hands

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

Verse ConceptsIntimidationFear Of Individuals

Then Saul said to Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I slay thee?

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingEscaping From PeopleThose Who Deceived

And David's men said to him, Behold the day of which Jehovah said to thee, Behold, I will give thine enemy into thy hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good to thee. And David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handssaul

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore Jehovah reward thee good for that thou hast done to me this day.

Verse ConceptsReward For Works

And Abishai said to David, God has delivered thine enemy into thy hand this day; and now let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the ground once, and I will not do it the second time.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Hands

And Samuel said, Why then dost thou inquire of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, thine enemy who sought thy life; and Jehovah has given to my lord the king to be avenged this day of Saul and of his seed.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

He delivered me from my strong enemy, From them that hated me; For they were mightier than I.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorGod Saving From EnemiesOvercoming Enemies

When thy people Israel are put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house;

Verse ConceptsdefeatSin Brings Impoverishment

If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsMildewHelp In ShortageNations Attacking Israel

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to Jehovah toward the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

Verse ConceptsPrinciples Of WarA Place For God's Name

If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceImperfection, Influence OfSin, Universality OfSinnersWeights And Measures, DistancesAll Have SinnedWill God Be Angry?Missing The Mark

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingGrudgesCharacter Of WickedCourage, Examples OfFinding People

And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house;

Verse Conceptsdefeat

If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near;

Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfSelf Righteousness, And The GospelSin, Universality OfWeights And Measures, Distances

But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God power to help and to cast down.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfHelpfulnessPower, HumanBraveryThe AlmightyLosing A FriendBattle

And under their hand was an army-host of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, that made war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.

Verse ConceptsWarriorsThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way; for we had spoken to the king saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his anger is against all them that forsake him.

Verse ConceptsForsaking GodGrace, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfRoadsGod's HandConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod's Hands On PeopleShame Has Come

And we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Verse ConceptsCaravansHand Of GodRoadsDivine Protection, Examples OfGod's HandGod Saving From EnemiesGod's Hands On PeopleEnemy Attacks

And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Individuals

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

Verse ConceptsVeilsGod HidingEnemies Of God

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming Enemies

Lo, he findeth occasions of hostility against me, he counteth me for his enemy;

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleOvertakingPsalm Interjectionsrelentless

O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementBlotted Outremembrancefinishing

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Verse ConceptsUnhappiness

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! lest mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.

Verse ConceptsdefeatRejoicing In Evil

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorGod Saving From EnemiesOvercoming EnemiesProtection From Enemiescrusades

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Verse ConceptsFeetAbundance, MaterialSpacious PlaceNot Given Into One's Handsspace

By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

Verse ConceptsNot DefeatedOvercomingFavor

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Verse ConceptsGod, The RockOppression, God's Attitude ToRocksGod ForgettingThose Oppressedoppression

For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGod, The RockFeelings Of Rejection By GodStrongholdsThose Oppressedoppression

Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.

Verse ConceptsInsultsMan AvengingRevenge

Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

Verse ConceptsInsultsEnemy Attacksoppressionpressureharassment

For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me then would I have hidden myself from him;

Verse ConceptsFriendsBest FriendsFunHurt And BetrayalEnemy Attacksbackstabbing

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:

Verse ConceptsComplaintsHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Mental AbuseProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of Jerusalemfootsteps

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceMockeryDisdainBefore God Acts

Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodInsultsFools, Description OfFools Attitude To God

No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him;

Verse ConceptsTributesOvercoming

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerRedemption, In Everyday LifeGod Saving From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Verse ConceptsMonotonyColors, BlackState Of The Deadcrushes

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, terror is on every side.

Verse ConceptsRoadsAmbushWar As God's JudgmentGoing OutsideFear Will Come

Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for thy good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

Verse ConceptsProtection From EnemiesGetting Through Hard Times

As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodeastGod Scattering IsraelTurning One's BackOut Of The EastThe East Wind

All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity: thy sins are manifold.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toChastisementNot Seeking PeopleForgetting PeopleWoundsFriends FailingGod As EnemyAll Have Sinned

Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Verse ConceptsdiligenceReward, DivinePromise of returnDo Not MournReward For Works

thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will give Pharaoh-Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of ThoughtFringe Of ClothesDownfall Of IsraelPeople Being UncleanI Am SufferingNo ComfortSeeking Honour

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water: for the comforter that should revive my soul is far from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy hath prevailed.

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenPeace, Human Destruction OfSympathyRestoring SinnersI Mourn CatastropheNo Comfort

He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy; and he burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, devouring round about.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodHornsRight Hand Of GodHorns WeakenedSevering Body Parts

He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that was pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hath poured out his fury like fire.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthRight Hand Of GodArchers, Likened To GodGod KillingFire Of God's AngerPleasing MenGod As EnemyGod Killed His People

The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Verse ConceptsLamentingSongsGrowth Of EvilSwallowingGod As EnemyHouses Under Attack

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath rejected his sanctuary; he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: they have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as on the day of a set feast.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRejecting ThingsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryWallsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallShouting To The LordFestivals Disregarded

Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toGuidance, God's Promises OfPlansDeterminismPower Through GodHorns VictoriousGod Speaking Of OldNot SparingRejoicing In Evil

Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsNo EscapeFear Will ComeFestivals DisregardedKilling Sons And Daughters

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesNot Believing PeopleNature Of Kings

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are become ours in possession;

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodEternal WorldTaking Possession

Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleForsaking God's Things

But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war.

Verse ConceptsRobesPeople Stripping PeopleEnemies Of God

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall be a light unto me.

Verse ConceptsDark DaysGod Giving LightComing Out Of DarknessHabitual Getting UpEnemiesRisingLight

And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodGod Not ExistingTrampling PeopleOvercoming EnemiesWhere Is God?

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.

Verse ConceptsNo EscapeGod Making Drunk

Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy; the King of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not see evil any more.

Verse ConceptsGod Is Among YouNo CondemnationOvercoming EnemiesCasting Out Fear

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy.

Verse ConceptsLove Your Neighbour!NeighboursLoving Your Enemies

And he said to them, A man that is an enemy has done this. And the bondmen said to him, Wilt thou then that we should go and gather it up?

Verse ConceptsEnemies Of God

said, O full of all deceit and all craft: son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of the Lord?

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfShrewdnessDenunciationsMischiefChildren Of EvilTwistingStraight PathsMen DeceivingChildren Of The DevilEnemies Of GodDemonic Influence

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Root Form
Definition
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איב 
'ayab 
Usage: 1

אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

ער 
`ar 
Usage: 2

צר צר 
Tsar 
Usage: 109

צרר 
Tsarar 
Usage: 54

שׂנא 
Sane' 
Usage: 145

ἐχθρός 
Echthros 
Usage: 18